OK may have
a motion to come out of executive session I'm outta the city commission Jurf
executive session continue with the media second the motion we place on the roll
call Maryland Commissioner William. Plainly I.
Have the day see the commission me now from the order would you please rise for the
invocation given by Commissioner of
a place that remains standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. By you here.
In these trying time let us gather together in close communion to advance the work
that we are directed to do to reach those with the community and. The Help.
Well the. Man. But I believe that. The United States of
America as you always. Want to hear. It was all very
well. They misled Americans of their own.
Commissioners Lovelace Williams I just said Wally I have
a motion to put the minutes of the May ninth twenty twelve meeting so moved second
motion your article probably moved
a second to two or three minutes remaining meeting all in favor say aye and so on
are there any communications or petition there and then Your Honor. I'd like to
call MS Marilyn Knight to the podium by the committee updated on world affairs.
And everyone else it's
a year this is our thirty ninth Annual World affair. On the day.
First of all. Present. And we welcome day and everything with them and
it's going to be this weekend Friday Saturday and Sunday we have thirty plus
countries that will be showing off their ethnic. Dress
their food their WHERE AND course they'll be dancing. And we
have an enlarged children's area this year but Children's Medical Center has given
us some money to do that and that way also are having the health care again
this year it will be Saturday and Sunday and able to be out in the lobby instead
of in the convention center proper So it will be over to the right as you can
manage. And it will be
a little more private for some of their talk say they have just some of their
people there. Like to hear
a little bit better than when they were behind the stage and. We are
a little bit noisy on the formal stage and. We have
a real an arrestee theme this year is folklore around the world so all the
countries will be showing in their boasts about their folklore folklore that
everyone has heard from their childhood up they've grown up with maybe don't want
this monster from Scotland or course all the leprechauns from Ireland and all the
other different countries. Were very fascinated by this by this when.
You can get advance tickets for many of the countries and then also you can get
tickets up until Sunday from Kroger's. From. Garden Center
on Far Hills. And
a lot of them out of place in Yellow Springs and the AAA offices and since has been
a big help with Kroger coming aboard for us because the adult advance tickets are
five dollars or seven dollars at the door. Senior citizens are five dollars advance
or at the door so you are three advance or four at the door and we're proud to
say all military with I.D.
Will be getting free and also on Saturday from eleven to one we've
extended this an hour handicapped people can come in free with their caregivers
and of course the passports are back again and the children always have those and
they can go to the different countries and get them. And I thought it was fifth
graders that study geography I'm
a little bit behind times I guess I was informed by them I'm
a Valley School. They teach in the third grade so there they are.
There with the six year two and we didn't have the opportunity to judge them or
their artwork pass we. Will be shown down there. So I
hope everybody comes and we're looking forward to. Course we
pray for rain but I think we're going to have a nice way again was always
a great event. I love sometimes. Dancing and dancing and
also doing some I think in the cooking she cooks. Always like to see
that and appreciate your leadership on
a mist over the years and I look forward to announcing some this weekend so yes I'm
looking forward to seeing your yeah we'll have
a thank you and it's right here in downtown so yes and I think Mayor you will be
down there. And then my wife.
Maybe we can get her interested in bringing me back daughter to get she gets to do
that thank you do you have the African dance or the wild Acrobat the African I.
Know OK now we decided not to bring them back again this year because last year. We
were
a little bit disappointed you know they they were they were so fantastic you know
the part but it was
a different group they have several groups from Kenya and that but they they do
they do
a good job because they support children. Parent and take care of they
don't call them or figures they just call. Homes over there know this year it's
Native American Indian Yes and where we're very happy with that because we have to
see free and he's a songwriter singer
a storyteller and then we have. Jonathan Holmes who he will actually be
doing
a Power dance in his name made. Dress. And so be sure and
go around and see all the native outfits and and specially I hope children count
because I think this is
a fabulous place for children they can learn so much about the people of the world
how they live how they dress. Course most and don't dress. The way they do in their
in their Bruce anymore we've kind of Americanize the world. But I still see them
in their outfits also you further I think you see this weekend Thanks Ms Knight.
Yeah. OK Mr Leonard you have any additions deletions or comments on the calendar
Yes Your Honor I would like to request the addition of
a formal resolution objecting to an application for third Street which. The seven
to seventy. Two in the informal resolution will be numbered eight eight
want that's all you don't hear. Any additional submissions or comments on the
calendar and new additions or deletions your good you know I'd like to call Erin to
the podium and ask him to talk about an Item number seven on the calendar which
represents
a milestone in terms of some changes we've been looking at for. Good
evening their city commission city manager I number seven is an ordinance submitted
twenty one properties to the county through our real estate act was Graham. Of note
is that we have agreement from all parties involved that we are now pushing all the
properties to be expedited tax foreclosure process so that will save significant
time. For the applicants Also of note with this ordinance there are
a handful of properties that are being requested for
a housing project that the developer has been working with in the neighborhood in
five and it's really
a project that probably will be under construction in two thousand and fourteen so
just as
a as kind of an aside we are constantly looking at projects to have three years out
so we hope that the new. Process that everybody is following the
pressure in the city will cut down the time so significantly to roughly sixty six
to nine months. In one currently before we using this new expedited process.
It ranged from. Fifteen to twenty four months depending on the. Backlog
in the courts because it was
a traditional mortgage foreclosure which. As everyone knows has we've had
a significant number of foreclosures throughout the years and so it would be as
part of a regular mortgage foreclosure so this is
a separate process that is designed specifically for the vacant in
a band in property or vacant to be in the properties through the tax foreclosure
and is
a separate system that is much much faster. That's like to commend your staff and
you for working with auditors and Treasurer's office where the second county in the
state to do this so to work really hard to find good properties and have some
confidence in the system in the county working with us I think it's been fantastic
and now just working to make the pipeline
a lot larger and wider so we can continue to get these properties into good use is
is the goal long term So thank you but thank you so many of these properties will
end up going into somebody else's hands as opposed to them just staying with us. Of
this twenty one. Of these twenty one properties all but two will be are being.
Acted upon upon somebody else's request so it's business it's both business and
residential properties that are moving through the process through this process. So
thank you and you hear. Anything else where I have nothing else two hundred OK
commissioners with any comments on this you mentioned recommendations Yes I'd like
to pull out of number five for
a week. I'm going to comment on item number five in
terms of glad to see that we're continue to support workforce development. When it
comes back maybe. It's best as
a given given the composition of the people that are working for what this big
construction project what they want to play upon a power that plays
a very key role in clearly
a number of the employees that they have working on because what these homes are
found on the folks that of down through the prison system and this is
a chance for them to step up and step out. So. But forward as
bring them back and vote on it we will that I don't consider race Thank you and I
the number nine here I want to comment on. This is one about certainly.
Supporting credit unions getting access to some public funds you know that our
history here and they know is that we've had some some pretty aggressive quitting
is like right Pat that has played
a very key role in revitalizing some of our urban business districts such that I
can recall over and twenty hours
a neighborhood there on thing ave the road the right path played in that grocery
store that was started by. By St Mary's
a long time ago at least seven years ago about in the ninety's. And obviously now
in the role that right Pat played in helping to be revitalized the West third
Street area so you find a credit unions play
a very key role and I was their own cold credit union and you have faith based
credit and like my church Corinthian Baptist Church was certainly played
a very key role back in the fifty's when
a number of African-Americans were able to get money from from banks like bad that
OP Aster who had a vision back in the fifty's to create
a credit union so that the members of his church can get access to home loans an
awful loans and send
a kid to college and things like that so I think they certainly deserve
a chance to. Be
a depository for public funds so I'm glad to see that we are supporting
a state in this sort of house bill for one as well as to build twenty two ninety
two so I asked my calculations for their support.
I have
a couple of. Things I don't number three out in notices for the meeting but if you
clarify for me. Seventy percent and ten percent Section three participation
slash goals is that saying that. They must be the same what would you interpret
them for me please yes it just means they came out the same OK So whatever the goal
was the seven day we achieve seventy percent seventeen M.B.
In ten percent section three and that will actually be reset Yes. I used to
like making no just because of my day job I always abstain from.
Financial institution I'm going to stay in the number nine.
As level or rather an assistance or wish to speak regarding calendar. Yes Your
Honor we have one citizen that is registered to speak on calendar I don't number
nine which is informal resolution number eight or seven dash one two and that this
time I would like to state there is
a three minute time limit as you address the commission we aks that you state your
name and address for the record at that time I would turn on the green light when
the green light comes on you will have the three minutes to speak after you have
spoken two and a half minutes
a yellow light will come on you Dan will have thirty seconds remaining to speak
when the red light comes on you'll be axed if he should come in take your seat call
for Mr Darrell Fairchild.
Mayor commissioners. The mayor commissioners city
manager and Madam Clerk and fellow citizens Darrell Fairchild fourteen zero four
Harvard and I come to speak in support of this informal resolution. We
know that a dollar that spent at
a local business will circulate in this economy seven times but
a dollar that spent in some franchise will go to that business and then leave our
community quickly and that bankrupts our community makes us. Less of an economic
power and harms our economy and so all things being equal using our money. In
local institutions is the best option we have to help grow our economy. But beyond
that we know that all things aren't equal we know that the large banks have been
complicit in
a host of plethora of bad behaviors from predatory lending and user its interest
rates helping to cause the housing bubble that has spurred urban sprawl and
increased foreclosures in our community and has made our housing market deficient
and we had heard that their behaviors had changed but the news of this week reminds
us that they are still acting badly and taking our deposits and
gambling with them. We know that the credit unions have the capacity to receive
public funds and to use them in
a responsible ways in that the interest and the fees that would be earned by those
institutions within stay here and help to create assets in our community and so I
encourage you to support informal resolution. And I don't number nine thank
you you thank.
That's all Yana thank you we have
a motion for. Recommendations. On the second devotion Your Honor
probably movement seconded to approve the seamen just recommendations all in favor
say aye and your. Legislation first reading emergency born its number three one one
six nine dash one to authorize in the submission acceptance acquisition in purchase
of twenty one properties from the government County Ohio and the subsequent
disposition of twenty one properties in connection with the real estate was ition
program reap and declaring an emergency your order to the river three one one six
nine dash one two being declared emergency move for its medium pass the second will
probably move the second digit emergency orders number three one one six nine dash
one two all in favor say aye right and the opposed second reading Emergency
Ordinance number three one one six nine dash one to the right in the submission
acceptance acquisition in purchase of twenty one Properties from
a government County Ohio and the subsequent disposition of twenty one properties in
connection with the real estate acquisition program Mayor Lytle commissioners
Lovelace Williams Josiah I whaling first reading resolution number five eight
nine seven dash one to authorize in the acceptance of
a grant award from the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the amount of
four hundred thirty four thousand five hundred seventeen dollars on behalf of the
city of Dayton in formal resolution number eight four seven dash one two supporting
House bill number four forty one Senate bill number two ninety two in the
eligibility of credit unions as depository of public funds I move for the immediate
passage of
a formal resolution number eight four seven dish one two. Second the motion your
honor some property move and second to adopt informal resolution number eight four
seven one two all in favor say aye. Any of those. In Europe's nations been duly
noted for machinery and for the I don't that was at it we have informal resolution
number eight for a fresh one two objecting to the new permit application for
a tight C one C two liquor permit number eight eight six eight eight eight six zero
zero zero five two third's street petroleum L C seven two seven West third Street
Dana Heigho five zero two you're on a move for the immediate past of
a former resolution number eight for one to second the motion from property moved
and seconded to adopt informal resolution number four eight dash one two all in
favor say aye all right and if. That's not fair OK must have it are going to
censorship speak yes Your Honor we have
a total of three citizens that are registered to speak and again I will state that
speaking policy there is
a three minute time limit as you address the commission we act that you state your
name and address for the record that that time I would turn on the green light when
the green light comes on you will have the three minutes to speak after you have
spoken two and a half minutes
a yellow light will come on then you will have thirty seconds remaining to speak
when the reply comes when you B.X.
To cease your comment to take your seat I call for Mr Ronald Gable.
NO THANKS FOR ME Good evening my name is Ron Gable I live at five thirty one
Belmont Park north of you made. And I want to say hi and.
Joy and Kerry and Dean and. Matt and Tim and
Jason and everybody here I don't have
a lot to say I thought I was going to be part of
a group and evidently I may be confused and have the wrong night what happens to me
all the time but I want to say something about the public library and system. And.
First of all I want to say that I am pro library I use it
a lot I go down there for many things than I ever sent my buddy Ben Franklin
invented the system I thought this is
a good thing I am opposed to their. Saying it's been in the paper about
putting
a bond issue on the agenda for two hundred thirty million dollars and I'm opposed
to that for two reasons. Part of their plan is to tear down and close or
close some of the existing neighborhood libraries and replaced am with
a little bit bigger library but a little bit further away from
a lot of people I've been at. Pro-rata board meetings neighborhood meetings and
in the sense my impression is most of the people are opposed to this as well but
I'm only going to speak for myself the reason I mention opposed to this is twofold
one isn't it's a con
a me we don't need more empty buildings. I think the money could be better used in
the playing can be altered if it was I would probably vote for it the other thing
is I believe that the library should be a community organization not
a business organization and I think they should open up more branches in the
community rather than talk about closing the branches and with that I thank you
very much for your time thank you Ron thank you Mr Gamble. Thomas rocks.
And I thank you.
My name is Thomas Iraq two zero zero seven Park Manor drive cottage you may be here
. City manager Mr Reardon and Mayor Gary lights
city commissioners and all that are present for this meeting. On Monday this
past Monday May fourteenth two thousand and twelve
a friend of mine that has an eye there's
a problem was walking on got go straight onto the sidewalk that borders when
Avenue where Walgreens is located and he was stopped by
a well trained German shepherd dog that was loose the dog galloped. Toward
him. Now just imagine what you see that coming at you Well fortunately it's
a trained dog and it didn't bite him but pulled down his pants and there he is and
in broad daylight he wasn't doing anything but mine is own business and he had to
stand still because he knew enough that if he moved the dog would either bite him
or knock him down to the ground because that's what the dog is trained to do so he
waited patiently have
a cell phone and call the police took forty minutes for the police to get there
because it was shift change. All right.
So then. You know I don't have much more say that then.
Didn't provoke that dog in any manner commissioners he was simply walking on the
sidewalk mind his own business going to Wendy's. Many people including children
have been attacked and scarred for life by pit bull dogs and other vicious dogs in
our city limits Fortunately the German shepherd dog did not bite.
And I'm not mentioning any names here because it might go to court. We have
a vicious dog ward. That isn't being enforced by our police department mayor.
There is no excuse for it. It is my prayer for hope that we will
restore law and order to our great American city but. THANK YOU
THANK YOU THANK YOU Mr Ross. Really Hollingsworth.
My name is Bernard Hollingsworth I live it forty four thirty eight Hoover Avenue.
Good evening Mayor commissioners and all the associates I'm going to make this
quick. First of all. Speaking on behalf of the post office and.
Where he's been talking the news about clothes and post office and I'm wondering
why why would there be
a closing of our central post office it's the hub of all the post offices in
Montgomery County not just because I know some some who work there but I'm
interjecting because of the fact it makes no sense to shut down the location that
all mail the route it. Downtown and dispersed through out United States through
the main post office I find to be redundant and ridiculous.
Maybe focus more on the outskirts of my idea. Small the post offices but
to close the main post office downtown. It doesn't make any sense at all
so I'm hoping that somehow we'll be able to keep it now my other issue is Hoover
Avenue as we all know that Hoover was shut down for two or three months right by
the old used to be the bowling alley and there was heavy equipment
bulldozers and back holes it was sitting there and for
a while no one was doing anything with it in there was
a couple they ran into it in with
a car and the wife of the driver died it was there now we were waiting because
Hoover Avenue is
a main street. Leading to the thirty five connector it was shut down for the
longest now they concluded the construction there we were really sure of
what they were doing and after it was supposed to be done it is a mess it's
a mess and I came down town and I talked to the. Street inspector and they say at
that it was contracted out it was
a private contractor and that this this company was not paid because they didn't
realize that Hoover it wasn't done the street dumps your car into the new
asphalt then it throws your car back up over into the old and it's rough and so
there hasn't that was about three weeks ago that I approached the stream inspector
about that he said well we're going to do something about that. Also third Street.
Tracks need to be fixed that street inspector said that is C S six is.
Responsibility and I said context Well I'm
a citizen here he should probably contex the Essex and that's their job all the
other tracks West second West first West fourth and fifth have been fixed third
Street is the main street that is used and it's still
a mess serves three rebel tracks there you know if you're Hollingsworth after the
session if Mr Fink would raise his hand just if Mr Fink would raise his hand you
could see him for a minute and just explain
a little further. Mr all interest on the post office I think this Commission agrees
with your position on Main Street post office is fighting its closure for the
processing unit we have sent letters to our delegation multiple times as well as
the United States Postal Service to say Don't close the post office is bad for
business that when they close the processing unit in Lima it. Mail service delivery
for inner city mail day in Dayton Kettering by two days because then I had to go to
Toledo and come back and that's what happened with the day in closing we have not
been successful yet in that action so probably with the same reason why the street
inspector told you to contact C.S.
That someone to ask you to do the same thing and direct
a letter to chew falling star at the United States Postal Service just as we have
as
a citizen to say this is important to you and it's important to our community you know
the C S X issue I would assume if you talk to Mr Fink we have
a troubled relationship with the railroads you know just not doing exactly what we
want them to do and so sometimes we and ask citizens to write letters to the
railroad to say hey this isn't just the city saying this there's regular citizens
out here complaining about this as well and so I would probably guess they're
asking you to take up your pen and go to work on behalf of the city and in behalf
of citizens as well so thank you for doing that OK thank you very much that's all
your honor thank you Mr in Germany closing comments I've known your owner planners
you have any closing comments I do not question if you have any closing comments I
do I wanted to tell Chief Bratton and everyone that this Friday is Bike to Work Day
And if you look in the case going out of city commission
chambers you will see I think that we have won every year that they have given
award the city of Dain staff and employees have been there by
a river skate there's a pancake breakfast it's
a great event and I think it's really nice weather and I know Chief Bratton is
dying to get on the bike so I wanted to make sure that he did not miss that
opportunity I will be serving pancakes she from six thirty to seven thirty if you
want to get early but don't worry Mary lights will be there later so if you want to
get there
a little later for the nine o'clock show you can definitely do that Chief be.
Always there he went on the bike ride on Friday so I'm looking forward to Chief
Bratton chief Redden joining us on the bike. Tork day it's been
a great it's been a great. Bike Tour you know as Bike Month and so we do
a lot of announcements I would like to can gradually our colleagues in Cincinnati
for being named the third bicycle friendly city with
a bronze medal Yes Mr Reardon even Cincinnati now is
a bronze level bike friendly along with Quintus and Dayton and so really trying to
work on encouraging infrastructure all across the state of Ohio even if sometimes
the state legislature doesn't see the need so we're really excited about that and
hope to see some of my colleagues there just coming to the pancake if you want to
say it's
a great event at risk it will be great and really pretty I wanted to also comment
that this Saturday is the pop conference the problem oriented policing conference
at Sinclair Community College and congratulate the police department on their
excellent. Award ceremony Friday I particularly like the unit
citations because you really get to hear what workers our police officers are
getting into situations that I could never imagine and it's it's great that we
recognize them each year and I really appreciate their effort and bringing the
conference think that Sinclair and I think free for everyone to attend so we hope
a lot of our community leaders and people interested in making their neighborhood
safe attend that pop conference at Sinclair. Potence one of. Them
so it's. A really. Building Building
a twelve twelve right I'm correct OK Oh it's opponent school or Oh well let me
respect say I'm sorry Thank you Chief has it is
a pony center not the pony it's the school not Ponette center so I saw that so. At
the pony schools that were still excited I think it was at Stephens last year I was
SO is in the city this year as I want to tell my colleagues now that we had
a good meeting D.C.
Last week for the day. Had
a little over one hundred hundred people from the region there and I think that lot
of discussion about unmanned aerial vehicles and getting that technology for the
region is something that was. A lot of consideration and then you know it is these
election cycle start earlier and earlier so it was pretty heavy on the two thousand
and twelve election this year even even as we're just trying to advocate for Dayton
so. It was nice to represent the city there I thought I have Your Honor thank you
you know. Got
a couple things try to be quick so I have more and I usually would first of all
want to thank those we had thirty five people last night show up with the Potter
house while our first small circle as we had our first small circle to have
a conversation about how to improve police. And community relations and so when
real well I think we got about four or five more of those and we'll keep everyone
informed if you want to participate in smaller scale small smaller discussions
please do so we're compiling all the information as I've stated before and we're
going to use that to try to come up with some recommendations and ways to again
improve that to help with safety and. Have
a better community overall to. Commissioner Lovelace and I we were at the southwest
very board meeting yesterday and I want to publicly state that we think is real
positive they did ask one thing for us and so I'll just ask publicly and Stovall
you might want to get involved with this when they asked about the. About we cut
grass in the B.B.
And apparently the grass is flying out
a story it's just it's not as neat as it could be as I said if there's something we
could do. And tonight we would appreciate that we cut the grass. And then the last
thing I'll be consistent of your last as for the last couple of weeks and ask if
the city manager would you give us an update Oh I'd ask before we could look into
trying to find a way to give people some time
a payment plan if you will if they have tickets to try to avoid them from getting
your car towed. And finish on that one I'd say we have been reviewing that in
looking at that and I hope to have it announced in
a report back to you next Wednesday we should let. You know here now I
just have
a couple of events to let highlight so people know what's going on tomorrow night
at five pm actually at the nutter Center's the date Hispanic Chamber of business
expo so if you're out and about and want to see what the Hispanic Chamber is doing
certainly stop out there of course on Friday Saturday Sunday we have
a world affair on Saturday also at twelve thirty at McIntosh Park is
a grief to Grace March they have
a meet up at McIntosh park at twelve thirty I believe the marching into the city to
have some kind of service on Monday my next mayor's walk is in the north right
across the river neighborhood and next Wednesday at noon is the walk downtown
Dayton event that reversed and if there's no further business something to be
finished commuting three.